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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Text of Anti-Erdogan Poem BANNED in Germany

I don't want to spend time explaining the whole Böhmermann affair. But, as many of you know, German comedian Jan Böhmermann got into legal trouble by reading on television an expletive laced satirical poem about Turkish President Recep Erdoğan. Many believe Angela Merkel authorized the pending possible prosecution of Boehmermann as a sort of additional payment to Erdoğan for pretending to regulate the entrance of thousands of Muslim soldiers into Europe or whatever--a payment in addition to the billions of Euros he's already receiving.

Today, a German court in Hamburg banned the public recitation of the poem. Or rather, it declared that only six lines of the twenty-four line poem could be recited. I'm going to reproduce the poem below. But if it's okay, I'm going to take out the really dirty words and in the style of Lenny Bruce, replace them with "blah" or some variation thereof. Purists can find the actual text here. And you can see the television clip where the poem was recited here.Vituperative Criticism (Smear Poem)

Dumb as a bag, cowardly and uptight

that’s what Erdoğan the President is.His blahs reek awfully of döner kebab,even a pig blah smells nicer.He’s the man who beats up girlswhile he’s wearing rubber masks.Most of all he likes blahing goatsand oppressing minorities,kicking Kurds, whacking Christianswhile watching child porn.And even in the evenings, instead of sleep,it’s all about blah with a hundred sheep.Yes, Erdoğan is totallya President with a small blah.Every Turk is heard to warble,that stupid blah has got wrinkled blahs.From Ankara to Istanbuleveryone knows, that man is gay,perverted, lice-ridden and a zoophile,Recep Fritzl Přiklopil.His head as empty as his blah,the star at every gangbang partyuntil his blah burns while blahing.That’s Recep Erdoğan, the Turkish President.

I assume the permissible abridged version reads as follows:

that’s what Erdoğan the President is.

And even in the evenings, instead of sleep,Yes, Erdoğan is totallyEvery Turk is heard to warble,From Ankara to IstanbulThat’s Recep Erdoğan, the Turkish President.

The really silly part about the whole affair is that while the poem is certainly disgusting and offensive, the most disgusting and offensive parts are obviously false. Only a portion of one sentence--"oppressing minorities, kicking Kurds, whacking Christians"--could possibly have any connection to reality, and even the effect of that is largely muted by the "while watching child porn" at the end.So part of the point was not to offend Erdoğan per se, but to do something for the sake of doing it merely because one wasn't supposed to. That is a standard part of the comedian's repertoire. In this case at least, the audience seemed to think it was funny.Böhmermann would later confirm that he might also have had a political motive--to test the limits of freedom of expression in Europe amidst (as I would put it) the current climate of fear, intimidation and censorship inspired by a rising Islam.

The results of the test are in. Not only can you not criticize Muslim despots, you cannot even joke about not criticizing Muslim despots.Wikipedia reports the comedian's reaction even before yesterday's ruling:

In an interview with Die Zeit on 3 May, Böhmermann sharply criticized Angela Merkel. "The chancellor must not waver when it comes to freedom and human rights", he said. "But instead she filleted me, served me a neurotic despot for tea and made me become a German Ai Weiwei. (the Chinese dissident) " His "belief" was shaken, "that every person in Germany has a non-negotiable, inalienable right to exercise certain basic rights: the freedom of art and the freedom of expression." Merkel did "obviously not think for a moment" about the poem, which he said was only an illustration of an insult: "It was much too dumb for me to insult Erdogan. I think, anyone can see this from the stupid smear poem."

Four weeks ago, Böhmermann was put under police protection and he temporarily suspended all of his radio and television activities. I am unclear as to whether they have resumed.

3 comments:

Nothing is going to stop this juggernaut. Let us remind ourselves what the world was like before The Annunciation - a swamp of evil with only a very small remnant of the old faith. Only this Holy Intervention by God was able to introduce a supernatural way out. I think it will come to that again within a very short time. Only Our Lady has been given the power to help us. Rosaries!

I congratulate this man for trying to bring attention to the fact that Europe is disappearing and will be indistinguishable from the desert hole that is the Middle East. If Europeans were frogs, they should be just about jumping out of that pot. How can they tolerate such oppression! It is going to get really ugly in these nations that have given in completely to Islam. London just elected a Muslim mayor. Could they possibly believe they are going to develop a "relationship"?? It is bizarre to see millions of people give in to cultural suicide. Say what you will about Americans, we aren't that foolish.